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 January 16, 2025

Finding Peace And Joy In Challenging Times

Once again, I’ve been having trouble writing. Between the hurricane and the election, this has been a challenging several months. Every year, the folks at Merriam-Webster choose a Word of the Year. Can you guess the word for 2024? It was “Polarization.” Given the state of our nation, that’s not surprising. But it is disturbing. […]

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Categories : Musings, Tiny Home Life
 October 7, 2024

Hurricane Helene

Dear Friends, We are safe. Thank you, everyone, for your texts and emails and phone calls. We are buoyed by your support and concern. We’ve tried to respond, but our communication with the outside world has been minimal. We have no internet, with no ETA. (I’m sending this from the parking lot of our internet […]

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Categories : Musings, North Carolina, Tiny Home Life
 September 21, 2024

We’re Still Here!

Hey! It’s been a while. I hope all of you are doing well. I didn’t mean to take a such a long hiatus from blogging. But after more than 10 years of blogging and 375 posts, I apparently needed a break. More than anything, I needed time to settle in to our new life in […]

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Categories : Musings, North Carolina, Tiny Home Life
 January 5, 2024

Creating Home

Earlier this week, we were sitting sit in front of our cozy fireplace, enjoying the warmth and comfort of our tiny house. I turned to Eric and said, “This is finally beginning to feel like home. Do you feel it, too?” He nodded, and said, “I love our little house.” In case you’re wondering, Magnolia […]

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Categories : North Carolina, Tiny Home Life
 August 13, 2023

A Big Mix Of Everything

I‘m taking a quick break from painting our cabinets to make note that we are, indeed, still here. It has been a crazy, stressful few weeks—with some truly delightful moments. Everything is fine now. But it has been kind of a bumpy ride. Eric had some worrisome heart palpitations that because of his history, required […]

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Categories : Tiny Home Life
 June 30, 2023

Friends Old And New, And More Tiny Home Progress

And suddenly, it’s the last day of June. For the past month, we’ve been immersed in decision-making for the myriad of details involved in a home build. But despite our dithering over which toilet to get, it appears that we’re still on target to move into our home by mid-August. Along with researching stuff and […]

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Categories : North Carolina, Tiny Home Life
 June 4, 2023

Finally In Flat Rock

We arrived in Flat Rock, North Carolina three weeks ago, where we’ve embarked on the adventure of overseeing the construction of our tiny home. We’ve been busy adjusting to tiny home life in a tiny home community in a town that we previously had only briefly visited. It’s a good thing I always quickly forget […]

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Categories : North Carolina, Tiny Home Life
Tags : Tiny home
 October 31, 2022

Big Changes Ahead

I‘m curled up on our comfortable sofa with my coffee, enjoying our expansive view of the bay, listening to the cheerful song of the Carolina Wren and the wind as it rustles through the palmettos. This has been my morning routine for almost three years now, ever since we found ourselves unexpectedly transplanted to the […]

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Categories : Musings, Tiny Home Life

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Eric and Laurel

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